Chapter 1765: The Final Battlefield
Beyond the heavens of the Ancestral Court, the great armies of Yan Kang and the myriad worlds were still withdrawing in an orderly fashion. Emperor Yan Feng, Ling Yuxiu, Village Chief and the others remained at the very rear.
Only after the last batch of soldiers had withdrawn would they leave.
It was at this moment that they saw a massive "wall."
The "wall" rising from the eastern side of the Ancestral Court was astonishing in height, astonishing in length, and its width was equally breathtaking!
It could absolutely not be called a wall—it was more like a heavenly barrier!
The mountains and rivers on the "wall's surface" were still shifting and changing. Someone was using tremendous magical power to alter the geographical layout, transforming that heavenly barrier into a colossal seal!
"The Beast Realm!"
Dragon Qilin suddenly cried out in shock: "The Beast Realm has also been folded!"
Yan'er stood beside him, gazing into the distance. What was folding the Ancestral Court was not a simple spatial divine ability—if it were merely spatial, the Beast Realm would not have been folded.
This was true, immense divine power, forcibly folding the Ancestral Court, to the point that the Beast Realm, located on the reverse side of the Ancestral Court, was now revealed!
The Beast Realm had been within a seal. Long before the Dragon Han Era had arrived, the Ancient God Heavenly Emperor Tai Chu had led all the ancient gods and the strongest among the demigods to seal the Ancestral Court using the reverse side of the myriad worlds, isolating the Ancestral Court from the myriad worlds.
Later, Qin Mu and the Ten Heavenly Venerables had come here and broken through the Ancestral Court's seal, but it had not been completely undone. The reverse side of the myriad worlds remained within the seal, eventually evolving into the Beast Realm.
The moment this heavenly barrier rose, Dragon Qilin immediately sensed the seals left by the ancient gods of the primordial era snapping one after another. The seal of the Beast Realm on the reverse side of the Ancestral Court had suddenly lost a quarter of its strength!
As the new master of the Beast Realm, his perception of it was extremely acute. The Beast Realm on the reverse side of the Ancestral Court was the most prosperous place in all the myriad worlds. Now this sudden catastrophe had left him at a loss, unsure of what to do.
The wall continued to rise, continuously transforming, surpassing the World Tree, standing upright beyond the heavens. Granny Si quickly severed the Spirit Energy Transfer Bridge beside her that led to Yan Kang, shouting: "Magnetic pole eruption! Stop the transfer!"
She immediately rushed toward the other Spirit Energy Transfer Bridges. Emperor Yan Feng, Ling Yuxiu, Village Chief and the others had already stepped forward, shutting down one bridge after another.
The remaining million-strong army of gods and demons had not managed to enter the transfer bridges and were now filled with alarm and uncertainty.
Granny Si shouted: "Everyone on guard! Form formations! Prepare to receive the magnetic pole eruption!"
The crowd hastily reorganized their armies, each setting up their own formations. Granny Si stood at the very front, activating her magnetic pole divine ability, leading her subordinates to activate the Myriad Dharma Wheel, standing ready in strict formation.
The starry sky was eerily calm.
The crowd looked toward the folded part of the Ancestral Court but saw nothing unusual, only feeling that the heavenly barrier spanning north and south had grown even more majestic.
Suddenly, one of the myriad worlds nearest to the Ancestral Court shifted, as if pushed a distance by something.
Wei Suifeng's hair stood on end, exploding outward like a hedgehog's spines. He shouted fiercely: "Everyone prepare! Channel twelve-tenths of your power! The impact of the Ancestral Court's magnetic pole eruption is several times more violent than we imagined!"
The crowd became extremely tense.
A single world being pushed—the distance appeared small to the eye, but in reality, in the starry sky, the distance that world had been moved by the magnetic pole eruption was absolutely staggering!
This meant that the magnetic pole eruption caused by the geographical changes of the Ancestral Court was terrifyingly powerful!
The impact of the magnetic pole eruption would certainly be unimaginably intense!
In the starry sky, stars suddenly seemed to go berserk, blown about by a wave of light, scattering in all directions. Some stars flattened into thin pancakes, some stretched extremely long, some shrank into a ball, and some expanded hundreds of times over—extremely bizarre.
A river of stars swayed, its spiral arm suddenly bending as if struck by a massive invisible fist. The hundreds of millions of stars within it twisted into utter chaos!
The crowd's eyes twitched wildly. The magnetic pole eruption had finally reached them.
Boom!
Boundless light erupted before their eyes. The power of the magnetic pole eruption arrived, space instantly warping. Incomprehensible forces stretched and compressed them in every direction. Some were pulled into long threads, some were crushed into tiny specks by boundless force, and others found their bodies jumping and twitching, suddenly discovering themselves split into hundreds or thousands of pieces, each piece of flesh separated into different spaces.
Even stranger—they discovered they were still alive!
Even in this state, they hadn't died!
This was because the magnetic pole was so powerful it created divisions in space. Though they were in different spaces, their physical bodies were still connected.
Various formations of Yan Kang were triggered. The crowd worked together, each activating their magnetic pole divine abilities to counter the eruption. However, the power of this magnetic pole eruption exceeded their expectations, causing casualties among the various armies.
Just then, stars in the sky suddenly grew brighter and brighter. Starlight converged, forming the massive face of Lord Heaven.
Whoosh—
An incredibly thick beam of starlight descended—a hand of Lord Heaven formed from countless stars, blocking the path before the million-strong army.
The crowd sighed in relief, but then they saw Lord Heaven's palm actually disintegrating within the magnetic pole eruption. Soon the palm was blown apart, revealing the skeleton of countless star cores beneath!
But fortunately, Lord Heaven had blocked it for a moment, allowing them to survive this wave of the magnetic pole eruption. Granny Si breathed a sigh of relief and looked around. The various armies were in shambles. Many who were skilled in magnetic pole divine abilities were helping those gods and demons trapped in the residual waves.
Countless divine weapons and treasures in the hands of gods and demons had shattered—some melted, some crushed, some turned into lumps of iron, some stretched into thin threads. The runes imprinted within those divine weapons had almost completely disintegrated!
The power of the magnetic pole divine ability was astonishing. This ability had originally been in the hands of Mother Earth Primordial Lord, one of her three great divine paths.
After Mother Earth's death, few could unleash the magnetic pole divine ability to such a degree. Even when Mother Earth was alive, she might not have been able to achieve this.
Granny Si was one of the few who had cultivated the magnetic pole divine ability to the Thirty-Sixth Heaven. That was why she sensed the danger the moment the Ancestral Court's magnetic pole erupted and gave early warning.
"The Ancestral Court has undergone a drastic change—we must leave immediately!"
Emperor Yan Feng shouted: "Enter the Spirit Energy Transfer Bridges now!"
Wei Suifeng shook his head: "Your Majesty, the Spirit Energy Transfer Bridges have already been destroyed."
Emperor Yan Feng's heart jolted. He quickly looked and saw that the several transfer bridges they had constructed had been completely destroyed by the magnetic pole eruption, reduced to piles of scrap metal.
"Then leave through the starry sky!"
Granny Si suddenly had a premonition and shouted: "Travel on foot! The second wave of the magnetic pole eruption is coming!"
The moment her words fell, the northern side of the Ancestral Court split heaven and earth apart. A second heavenly barrier was thundering up from the ground!
Emperor Yan Feng immediately ordered everyone to withdraw, running through the starry sky toward the Primordial Realm.
Meanwhile, in the Mystic Capital, Lord Heaven activated his divine ability. The Heavenly River churned violently, bending from the starry sky to spread out before them.
The million-strong army of gods and demons walked upon the river, marching toward Yan Kang. Dragon Qilin, worried that something might happen to the Beast Realm, immediately led the Beast Realm's army back. Yan'er quickly followed him.
Granny Si hesitated for a moment, then fell behind, not following the Yan Kang army.
"Granny, are you worried about Mu'er?" Village Chief also fell back, not following the army either.
Granny Si shot him a glare and sneered: "Why did you stay behind?"
Village Chief shook his head: "It's not just me who stayed. They stayed too."
Granny Si looked and saw that Horse Master, Blind Man, Deaf Man, Medicine Master, Mute Man and the others had also stayed behind. Ling Yuxiu had also quietly slipped away from the army and was walking toward them.
"Folding the Ancestral Court, daring to do something so audacious that defies heaven and earth—there is only one person who would do this."
Ling Yuxiu said: "That is my husband. My husband's boldness knows no bounds, he is un..." She paused.
Mute Man finished: "Unscrupulous. That's right, the one folding the Ancestral Court is our Mu'er."
Ling Yuxiu said: "Earlier when I saw the Ancestral Court rising, I was still uncertain. But when I saw another heavenly barrier appear, I was certain it was my husband sealing the Ancestral Court. If he's sealing it, he definitely won't leave—he'll seal himself within it as well. A wife follows her husband wherever he goes, so I can only stay."
Granny Si glanced at the group, then suddenly broke into a smile: "Since you all want to stay, then let's brave the Ancestral Court together! If I go alone, I might run into danger. With your help, at least I'll have some means of self-protection. But the Ancestral Court is extremely dangerous—we must all be careful."
Village Chief and the others nodded repeatedly, saying in unison: "Whatever Granny commands."
Granny Si glanced at the second heavenly barrier still rising, then said: "The second magnetic pole eruption is coming soon. Let's hurry into the Ancestral Court to take shelter!"
The nine of them immediately headed straight for the Ancestral Court. Just as they entered the sky above it, the second magnetic pole eruption arrived. They looked up and saw auroras appearing all across the Ancestral Court's sky—colorful and brilliant, dazzling to behold.
At that moment, in the western part of the Ancestral Court, another heavenly barrier was slowly rising, causing their faces to grow solemn.
The sealing of the Ancestral Court was already half complete.
"We'll wait for him in the south!"
Granny Si said rapidly: "We're sure to meet him in the south!"
On the Ferry Ship of Salvation, the three hall masters Zhao Yang, He Huan and Phoenix gazed at this scene, deeply shaken.
The shock in the hearts of Xu Shenghua, Lan Yutian, Moon Heavenly Venerable and the others was equally beyond comparison.
The ancient gods sealing the Ancestral Court had already been the most brilliant moment in the history of the Seventeenth Era, a sight to inspire awe.
And now, Qin Mu was forcibly folding the space of the Ancestral Court, intending to turn it into a massive prison, sealing both the Miluo Palace and the World Tree factions—including all the Heavenly Venerables and Dao Achievers—within this enormous cage!
This scale of ambition surpassed even the ancient gods' sealing of the Ancestral Court. It was grander, vaster, and required power that was immeasurably greater!
"The Miluo Palace cannot be sealed."
He Huan Hall Master shook her head, speaking calmly: "Seventh Young Master doing this only invites ridicule."
She exuded absolute confidence in the Miluo Palace's strength: "No one can seal the Miluo Palace! Any one of the seventy-two hall masters of the Miluo Palace can break Seventh Young Master's seal, let alone the Young Masters of the Miluo Palace!"
"That's right!"
Phoenix Hall Master stepped forward, laughing: "As long as we anchor ourselves in the void and establish our foothold in this universe, there will be no power left in it that can contend with us!"
Zhao Yang Hall Master wanted to speak, but suddenly let out a muffled groan and spat out blood. His injuries were showing signs of becoming impossible to suppress.
Kai Huang Qin Ye said leisurely: "Seventh Young Master is sealing the Ancestral Court, turning it into a prison. Of the four walls, he deliberately left the top unsealed. Do you think he's leaving you a sliver of hope?"
He looked up at the sky. Heavenly Emperor Hao was still desperately trying to imprint the void, cultivating the Great Luo Heaven.
"The reason Seventh Young Master left the sky open is mainly to seal the thirty-six layers of void, leaving you nowhere to anchor yourselves."
Kai Huang Qin Ye withdrew his gaze and said flatly: "The Ancestral Court will be our battlefield for the final contest. Only the last victor will leave here alive!"